May 20, 1916 



HORTICULTURE 



707 



Flower Market Reports 



{^Continued from page yoj) 



Last week was one 

 NEW YORK of the most drowsy 

 and lackadaisical the 

 wholesale flower district has experi- 

 enced in a long time. Of course there 

 was the Mother's Day fuss towards 

 the end of the week, which pretty well 

 towselled up the carnation end of the 

 business and was the occasion of more 

 or less tumult and not a little acerbity 

 of temper, the net result being a 

 clean-up of white varieties at inflated 

 prices and a redundancy of pink and 

 red ones of questionable age, many of 

 which were left over for garbage pur- 

 poses Monday morning. There is an 

 enormous overload of Spanish irises, 

 sweet peas, snapdragon, yellow daisies, 

 etc., just at present and the conges- 

 tion is intensified by the receipt of 

 immense quantities of lilacs, apple 

 blossoms, dogwood and other garden 

 shrub and tree bloom as well as out- 

 door bulbous flowers, etc. Heavy 

 shipments of peonies arriving from 

 the south and in excellent condition. 

 All these factors have contributed to 

 break the back of the flower market 

 but it will not be for long as the fin- 

 ishing of these spontaneous crops 

 will be sure to leave a keen .lune mar- 

 ket for the choicer goods. 



In the rose mar- 

 PHILADELPHIA ket the past week 

 the best demand 

 was on the shorter grades and espe- 

 cially so in the white classes. Long- 

 stemmed stock went rather slowly 

 and prices were not as satisfactory as 

 they should have been for fancy qual- 

 ity. There were too many carnations 

 early in the week, but they cleaned up 

 fairly well by Friday and Saturday. 

 There was very little advance in price 

 except on white. Even the white went 

 at regular prices by the high-grade re- 

 tail stores, as they wished to show 

 their customers they appreciated regu- 

 lar trade. Cattleyas are still bringing 

 fairly good prices and there is enough 

 stock around to satisfy all demands. 

 Lily of the valley of the indoor brand 

 brings the usual figures, although 

 there is a lot of fine outdoor stock at 

 present going for very little. We won- 

 der are those buyers really more of 

 the sheep than we have been imput- 

 ing to them for all these years. It 

 seems so. Some of that outdoor stock 

 going for a dollar is worth more than 

 the five-dollar indoor. And yet these 

 slaves of habit must pay the five. 

 Sweet peas hold their own very well. 

 Gladioli, indoor and soutbern. and in 

 "Baby" and "Grandiflora" are now 

 plentiful and .good. Snapdragon goes 

 well in the fancy grades, but there Is 

 an immense lot of poor stock. Daf- 

 fodils are nearly over. 



Mother's Day Is 

 PITTSBURGH steadily growing in 

 popularity. Last 

 Sunday by far over-reached any prev- 

 ious celebration of the day. Indeed, 

 at least one retail firm finally had to 

 resort to white paper flowers, after 

 disposing of cut blooms of all varle- 



{Continued on fiage 714') 



STRAIOHT WIIOT.FSAI.E ONI^Y 



FRANK MILLANG 



CUT FLOWERS 



55-57 W. 26th St., NEW YORK 



NO DKSIGN.S M.VDE 1.1" 



We are WHOLESALE FLORISTS 



We handle every variety of cut flowers. We have 22 

 years' experience behind us, and we do not expect a gold 

 medal for doing our full duty by our consignors and custo- 

 mers. You cannot go very far wrong when dealing 

 with us. 



GUTTMAN & R AYNOR, Inc. 



101 West 28th Street, NEW YORK 



Phones 2036, 2037, 558 Farragut 



PATRICK WELCH, WHOLESALE FLORIST 



262 DEVONSHIRE STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 



TEJ>EPHONK MAIN «6»8 

 Ainertoui BmntlM, Orchids, Valley, Carnation.. All the DOicltUw In th« Cm« f^'21' 

 Market furnished on short notlre. Prices quoted on application. No retaU »T*rT- 

 ace«pte<l. Flowers shlitped out of Boston on eariy tralna. 



STORE OPEN FOR BUSINESS AT 6 A. M. 



NEW YORK QUOTATIONS PER 100. To Pealerg Only 



MISCELLANEOUS 



CattlersLS • • 



Dendrobmm formosum 



Lilies, Lonffiflorum • 



Rubfum 



Callus 



Lily of the VaUey 



Daises 



ViolsU 



Mignonette 



Snapdragon • 



Daffodils 



Gladioli 



Tulips 



Hyacinths 



Freesia 



Calendulas 



Lilac (per bunch) 



SwaetPea* 



Gardenias 



Adiaatinn 



Smilax 



Aaparacus Phunoaus, & Spren (loo buncbes) . 



Last Half of Week 



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I Can Sell Them For You! 



I hare an nnllmlted market for your flow»r», any rarlety. In any qnantltj. Prompt 

 retams of aalM an coDilxna' M°*^^ Saady oaab Trheo due. A. clean record of twenty- 

 elsbt years Id the Cat Flower C»mml<aion Bnslneei. 



Write for information or call and talk It arer. 



.o..-J.-S^->... J- K, ALLEN "-^E^ToVr- 



New England Florist Supply Co. 



SPECIAL— ^"ii^r^ Sphagnum Moss, $3.50 

 276 Devonshire Street, BOSTON, MASS. 



Open 6 a. m. to 7 p. m. 



UNIIED CUT FLOWER CO.,¥C. 



Flowers Solil on Commission 



Consignments of 

 Good Stock Solicited 



PERCY W. RICHTER, Mgr, NEW YORK 



Fort HiU, 3469 

 TKI^EPnONES: Main, 4789 W 



EstabUabed 1888 



Tel. 681 Farrsgnt 



GUNTHER BROS. 



Wholesale Commission Florists 



110 West 28th St., New York 



We Solicit ConalKnmenta of New 

 England Grown NoTeltles. 



J. J. CO AN, iNc. 



lis WEST 25TH STREET 

 New York 



Tel., Farragut &413-B891 



EVERYTHING IN CUT FLOWERS 

 CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED 



111 W. X8th gtreet 



HERMAN WEISS 



Wholesale Florist 



Exprrlenced, rroK'"*'f*'*lve niid can h&ndl* 



shlpmentH of grower»' product 



HntiNfactorilj'. 



106 West 28th St. 



NEW YORK 



TpI. Farrasut 3060. 



